"SAVED BY HOPE.

" (Romans 8:24) Just that important it is to

have the hope which Almighty God set before mankind when it
first came into a state of need The need for knowledge of that
saving hope was never more pressing than today, when the world
has fallen into most desperate straits. Most grateful we are to have
such an excellent statement of the hope as that set forth in the
widely heard lecture "The Kingdom Hope of All Mankind", and we
gladly preserve it in print and release it in this booklet to all
mankind for whom God's kingdom is at hand with all the blessings
for which human hearts have long waited.
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ANKIND has known human kingdoms since

the days of mighty Nimrod, the king of Babel,
the first king spoken of in reliable history. That
was over 4,000 years ago, or more than thirteen centuries
before the city of Rome was founded (753 B.C.) and
became a kingdom. Yes, it was more than fourteen
centuries before an Indian king or chieftain near the
Himalaya mountains became father to Buddha the
oriental religious leader (570-560 B.C.). Today, after so
long a time, some kingdoms still remain, alongside of
other forms of political government, including the United
Nations organization born in 1945 (A.D.). All the distinct
kingdoms, empires and forms of political governments
that have existed since Nimrod have failed to realize the
hopes of the people, and now the political and religious
leaders of the modern world proclaim the United
Nations to be the only hope of all mankind.
However, if we use merely our powers of reason we can
see that the U. N. is a vain hope. Why so? Because if the
kingdoms, empires and other political governments have
failed separately, how can they possibly succeed by uniting
together a grand collection of failures? Many failures added
together do not sum up to success. Besides that, no man
individually is able to save himself and lift himself up out
of his own difficulties. For this basic reason, if all mankind
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make it more possible for the human race to save itself from
the conditions that have afflicted it for these six thousand
years. All humanity must turn elsewhere than to itself for
true hope and its realization.
Where, then, must all mankind turn with the assurance
that it will not be disappointed? Since it is precluded
from looking to united mankind or to united nations for
relief and salvation, only one direction remains in which
to look, and that is to the Almighty Creator of earth and
of man. According to the very meaning of the word
"God", the Creator of the earth and of all the visible
universe is God, the one living and true God. In him lies
the foundation for the true hope. What is more, this
Almighty God holds out a hope for all those of mankind
who are willing to accept it and rely upon it. In writings
that he caused to be written by his active force or spirit
he is called "the God of hope". One human writer, whom
the Creator's spirit caused to write, says this prayer for
believers today: "Now the God of hope fill you with all
joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope,
in the power of the holy spirit." And to show that we
gain knowledge of the true hope through what this
Creator God caused to be written by his holy spirit, the
same writer says: "Whatsoever things were written
aforetime were written for our learning, that through
patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might
have hope." -Romans 15: 4,13, American Standard Version.
The value and importance of having this true hope
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of hope" caused to be written make up the book called

"The Holy Scriptures" or "The Bible"; and in this Bible it is
written: "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen
is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope
for? But if we hope for that [which] we see not, then do
we with patience wait for it." (Romans 8: 24, 25) If we do
not have the true hope, we are sure to misplace our trust,
and, after we have waited patiently, we are certain to
gain no salvation, but to be destroyed together with our
false hope. On the other hand, if we become acquainted
with the true hope and put our trust and reliance upon
the One that offers such hope and that can really fulfill it,
then we are certain to be saved after we have patiently
waited upon the Creator God to make hope come true.
Many centuries before the days of Nimrod, at the very
beginning of mankind's existence when it came in need
of a hope, the Creator expressed and held out a glorious
hope; and the fact that to this day the hope is not seen as
realized does not make the hope foolish or
foundationless. If it were already realized, what need
would there be of hoping? But because we do not yet see
it realized, we must hope on.
Nevertheless, we do not "hope against hope"; that is to
say, we do not hope without good cause or reason. True
hope was uttered by Almighty God the Creator, and he
even had it written down for us to read now, six
thousand years later. He cannot lie; for it is written of
him: "In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie,
promised before times eternal; but in his own seasons
manifested his word in the message." (Titus 1:2,3, Am.

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Stan. Ver.) He will stand by his written word and will

make it good, for his own vindication. He backs up his
word by his own almighty power, and hence there is no
possibility for his word of hope to fail. Not only do we
have his unchangeable written Word, but now there exist
all the arrangements and developments that he has made
during the past six thousand years for the bringing of
this hope to fruition. His arrangements and
developments are recorded on the pages of reliable
history, and he will not now reverse them all at this late
date, so near to making his promise true. His Word and
arrangements produce faith in us. Such faith, based on
his Word, is the ground for all our happy expectations.
Concerning this he says in his written Word: "Now faith
is the substance [or, ground] of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1) So we may
hope on for the little while longer, because we have such
a substantial basis upon which to rest ourselves in faith
and hope. We can hold fast to our desire for what God
has promised, with faith that it is obtainable, and expect
to receive and realize it.
For thousands of years the world of mankind has been
pinning its hopes to political and religious governments
clear down to this "atomic age" and its United Nations.
Hence men in general have been in just the condition that
God describes them in his Word, namely, "having no
hope, and without God in the world." (Ephesians 2:12)
Their hope in the United Nations today is a vain hope;
and as time and events go on, more and more of all
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as salvation from nations and men is concerned. Since,

therefore, our hope lies outside the realm of helpless
mankind and unsuccessful man-made governments, we
ask: What is the right and true hope, hence the only hope,
of all mankind today? The Creator's own Word answers,
The kingdom of God! It will be one kingdom over all the
earth and over all its peoples.
THE KING APPOINTED
God the Creator has appointed the King to represent him
and rule for him in this kingdom of salvation for all
humankind. This one is his own beloved Son, whom he
brought forth as "the beginning of the creation of God", "the
firstborn of every creature." God's own Word uses such
expressions respecting his faithful and devoted Son. (See
Revelation 3:14 and Colossians 1:15.) As Creator he used this
only begotten Son as his Servant in creating all other things.
It was to this Son that God said at the climax of earth's
creation: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth." (See John 1:1-3 and Colossians 1:16-18 and Genesis
1:26.) God's promise that his faithful Son and Coworker
should be the King in the coming kingdom of God was
made shortly after He created man and woman, in the very
garden of Eden or paradise in which God placed them upon
this earth. Because it was so many thousands of years ago
the apostle Paul says God made the promise "before times
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That was at the sad time when the perfect man and
woman had willfully disobeyed God their Creator and
had taken their stand on the side of His adversary, whom
the Bible calls "that old serpent, called the Devil, and
Satan". (Revelation 12:9; 20:2) Now all three stood before
God for judgment, namely, Adam and Eve and the
Serpent, Satan the Devil. First, God pronounced his curse
upon the wicked deceiver, the old Serpent, and said to
this invisible spirit creature who was pictured by the
serpent on the ground: "I will put enmity between thee
and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he
shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
(Genesis 3:14, 15, Am. Stan. Ver.) That Seed, which
delivers mankind from the Serpent's power, is the Seed
of God's "woman" and is his Son; and this promise in
Eden meant that the Son of God should have a kingdom
with which to bruise the Serpent and all his wicked seed
and destroy them. But before entering upon his kingdom
for the destruction of all wickedness, the Son must suffer
the assaults of the Serpent and of all his brood and must
be bruised to the death for his faithfulness to God his
Father. But Almighty God would heal the bruise by
raising him from the dead, and then he would in due
time put him in the power of the Kingdom to destroy the
Serpent and all his seed of evildoers. For that reason
God's Seed and his kingdom represent the true and only
hope of all mankind. The trustworthy facts show that the
Seed is Jesus Christ, his Son.
The kingdom of Nimrod in the third millennium before
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It was nothing less than an effort by Nimrod, tinder the

Serpent's control, to turn the hope of all mankind away
from the promised kingdom of God to a counterfeit manmade political government. God's own Word brands
Nimrod's kingdom as a devilish move against the good
purpose of the living and true God, whose name is
"Jehovah". In that third millennium before Christ Jehovah
God brought on a global flood, which wiped out all
mankind except God-fearing Noah and his three sons,
Shem, Ham and Japheth, and the wives of all four men.
Nimrod was a great-grandson of Noah through Ham and
his son Cush. Concerning him as the first king on earth
God's Word tells us in the first book of the Bible: "And
Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the
earth. He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah : wherefore
it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel." (Genesis
10: 8-10, Am. Stan. Ver.) Babel, or Babylon, was more than
a thousand miles west of India. Nimrod's being a mighty
hunter "before Jehovah" meant he was in opposition to
Jehovah God and that he carried on military campaigns
against weaker men and peoples and that other men
worshiped him, considering him even superior to Jehovah
God. King Nimrod did not please or honor God the
Creator, but served God's great adversary. So the Serpent,
Satan the Devil, deceived many people into thinking
Nimrod was the promised seed of the woman that was to
bruise the Serpent's head. Hence, at his death in the flesh,
Nimrod was declared to be immortalized and was deified
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All the kingdoms of this present evil world have

stemmed from Nimrod's kingdom. The Babylonish spirit
of opposition to Jehovah which all such kingdoms show
proves it. Not long after Nimrod's violent career a
faithful servant of Jehovah God, named Abraham, was
born, not far from the location of Babel or Babylon. He
was descended from Noah through his son Shem, and
did not believe that Nimrod was the promised Seed of
God's "woman". God moved Abraham out of Babylon's
neighborhood down into the land of Palestine, and God
promised to give it to this man's descendants. Because of
Abraham's faithfulness and obedience to him God said
concerning Abraham's wife Sarah: "I will bless her, and
give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she
shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of
her." (Genesis 17:15,16) This son named Isaac was then
used to picture the Son of God who was to become the
Seed of God's "woman", the Ruler in the promised
kingdom of God.
In Abraham's day there was a kingdom in the land of
Palestine that was in harmony with Jehovah God. It was
the kingdom of King Melchizedek at the city of Salem,
which city later became Jerusalem. King Melchizedek
was also then the priest of the Most High God Jehovah.
He blessed Abraham, saying: "Blessed be Abram of the
most high God, possessor of heaven and earth; and
blessed be the most high God. which hath delivered thine
enemies into thy hand." (Genesis 14:18-20) Out of respect
for God, to whom King Melchizedek ministered as priest,
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as a contribution. Because of King Melchizedek's faithful

priesthood Jehovah God used him as a prophetic picture
of the Seed of God's "woman", the coming High Priest
and King of God's kingdom.
Inasmuch as Abraham was willing to obey God to the
very point of sacrificing his beloved son Isaac, believing
that God was able to raise him from the dead, Jehovah
God said further to Abraham: "Thy seed shall possess the
gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my
voice." (Genesis 22: 17,18) That meant that when the
heavenly Son of God would come to earth and be born as
a man to be bruised by the Serpent, he would be a
descendant of Abraham through Isaac, and he would
become a king and by means of him God would bless all
the families of the earth that became his subjects and
obeyed him. In this way Jehovah God strengthened the
hope of all believers in the coming kingdom of God.
Why? Because here God swore by his own self to, this
promise respecting the Seed of Abraham; and that
strengthened hope is for us to hold to like an anchor
fixed in heaven, beyond the veil of Christ's flesh.
Wherefore, concerning this oath-bound promise to bless
all the nations of the earth through the kingdom of his
Son Jesus Christ, God's Word says:
"God, being minded to show more abundantly unto
the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel,
interposed with an oath; that by two immutable things,
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strong encouragement, who have fled far refuge to lay

hold of the hope set before us: which we have as an
anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and
entering into that which is within the veil [namely, in
heaven]; whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us,
having become a high priest for ever after the order of
Melchizedek." -Hebrews 6:13-20, Am. Stan. Ver.
Besides King Melchizedek, another king whom
Jehovah God favored and used as a prophetic picture of
the royal Seed was David the king of Jerusalem. David
was born at Bethlehem in Palestine, about six miles
southwest of Jerusalem. Fittingly he was a descendant of
Abraham, through his great-grandson Judah. Because
King David faithfully worshiped Jehovah God and
desired to build a temple to him at Jerusalem, God
promised that the Seed of the "woman" would be born as
a man descended from David's royal line and in that way
the kingdom would remain in the line of David for ever
and ever. By means of his prophet, Jehovah God said to
King David: "I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall
proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his
kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I
will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be
his father, and he shall be my son." -2 Samuel 7:12-14.
For this reason none of the worldly kingdoms in the past
or in the present time could fulfill the Kingdom hope of all
mankind, because none of them have been or are ruled over
by this promised Descendant of King David, the Son of
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Christendom's kings are representatives of the Son of God

on their thrones have proved to be false. This explains why
the promised blessings of the kingdom of God have failed
to come through Christendom's kings and rulers anointed
by the religious clergy. None of these were descendants of
faithful Abraham through King David, but the kingdoms of
these rulers of Christendom to this day have merely served
the Devil's purpose to sidetrack the people's hope from the
true kingdom of God by his Christ.
THE ONE IN WHOM NATIONS MUST TRUST
Jesus Christ himself personally, who was born at
Bethlehem nineteen centuries ago of the line of King David,
is the One appointed by Jehovah God for the people to trust
in. Due to this the Scriptures speak of him as the "Lord
Jesus Christ, which is our hope". (1 Timothy 1:1) Before his
birth as a man, the angel of God told his human mother
that the Kingdom promise made to David God would
fulfill to her son, who should be called "Jesus". (Luke 1:3033) A prophecy by God's angel to the faithful Daniel
foretold the very year when Jesus should present himself
publicly as the Messiah or Christ, that is to say, as God's
Chosen One anointed to be the King of the promised
government for the blessing of all the families and nations
of the earth. (Daniel 9:24-27) In that very prophesied year
Jesus was baptized in the Jordan river by John the Baptist.
He was anointed with the spirit of God as soon as he came
up out of the water, thus becoming Christ or Anointed One;
and the voice of God was heard to say out of heaven: "This
is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." (Matthew

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3:13-17) For this very reason, that old Serpent, Satan the
Devil, led his demons on in an attempt to destroy Jesus
Christ, or at least to bruise his heel as God's prophecy in
Eden had foretold.
When on earth what could Jesus Christ show to prove
he was worthy to be ruler in God's kingdom and that he
could fulfill the hope of all mankind? He could show that
by his human birth from the virgin Jewess named Mary he
was descended from Abraham and King David and was
born at the place foretold in prophecy, Bethlehem. Being
born of an untouched virgin, he had no human father. The
life which he had from God his Father in heaven was
transferred down to the virgin's body, so that he was born
as a perfect human creature untainted by sin, disease, and
condemnation of death. Hence he had the right to eternal
life on earth. After his baptism in the Jordan he had God's
own word from heaven that he was the approved Son of
God. At the same time he had been anointed with God's
spirit to be the king of the foretold kingdom of God and to
occupy its throne forever. He thus became the heir of the
Kingdom promise made to David. However, this
kingdom was not to be an earthly kingdom, even if it did
rule over the earth. It was to be a heavenly government.
For this reason, at the Jordan river, Jehovah God started
Jesus on the way back to heaven by begetting him with
his divine spirit to become his spiritual Son once again.
For him to become fully a spirit Son of God again, he
must lay down his human life first. On this account, when
Jesus began preaching after his baptism and his anointing
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earth. He preached: "The kingdom of heaven is at hand."

-Matthew 4:17.
To back up the truth that he was the Son of Jehovah God
from heaven and was anointed to rulership in the promised
Kingdom for the blessing of all mankind, Jesus performed
many signs or miracles as a man on earth. He preached the
gospel or good news of the Kingdom to the poor people
free of charge. He multiplied food to feed the hungry
multitudes. He cured the people of their many ailments,
opening the blind eyes, unstopping the deaf ears, loosing
the dumb tongues, casting out the demons that obsessed
men and women, cleansing the plagued, restoring the
crippled, and even raising the dead back to life. The record
is that "there went virtue out of him, and healed them all".
(Luke 6:19) He exposed the religious frauds and oppressors
and hypocrites, and fearlessly told the common people the
truth in order to make them free. He committed no sin in
deed, word, or thought, but kept the law of God perfectly
and fulfilled all the prophecies of God's Word respecting
him. Thereby he remained innocent and perfect and held
on to his right to everlasting life and his worthiness to
rulership in the kingdom of God. He did not try to glorify
himself so as to get the popular worship. No; but he
endeavored to get the people to glorify Jehovah God, and
he let his words, deeds and course of life testify to the
people as to who he was, namely, that he was the promised
King on whom to rest their hope. Hence we read these
words by the apostle Matthew:
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charged them that they should not make known: that it

might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the
prophet, saying, Behold, my servant whom I have
chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I
will put my spirit upon him, and he shall declare
judgment to the nations. He shall not strive, nor cry
aloud; neither shall any one hear his voice in the streets.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall
he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
And in his name shall the nations hope." -Matthew 12:1521, Am. Stan. Ver., marginal reading.
He did not follow any religious practice of living a
lonely, contemplative life, strictly disciplining himself by
mortifying himself, or torturing himself in one way or
another in order to gain some supposed merit or special
credit by such self-punishment. He needed no such
merit, for he was born perfect and he maintained his
sinless state and kept himself in God's love and approval.
Despite his perfection, he did not hold himself apart, but
mixed right in with the people to do them good by
speech and works, although the people were so
imperfect, sinful and diseased and afflicted. Instead of
torturing himself and begging for alms, Jesus expended
his strength and vitality for the direct, positive help of
the people, "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
through Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our
infirmities, and bare our diseases." (Matthew 8:17, Am.
Stan. Ver.) This course glorified God and did the people
good, whereas self-centered, self-torture for his own
merit would have done the people no good, but would

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have been following worldly religions. Torture did come

upon Jesus Christ, but not at his own hands. It was at the
hands of his enemies, the priests and the teachers of false
religion, under the influence of the wicked demons. All
this seed of the Serpent were at enmity with Jesus for
being the Seed of God's "woman". Therefore they
persecuted him. They opposed his pure worship of God
and his preaching of the kingdom of God. Finally they
seized him secretly and handed him over to the state
authorities and had him publicly nailed to a torture stake
to die like a seditious, blasphemous criminal.
No one should be stumbled at this. This was all just as
God's written prophecies had foretold. Jesus Christ,
reading those prophecies, knew he must die as a man
and thus be 'bruised at the heel' by the Serpent Satan the
Devil and his wicked seed. But he was willing to undergo
this, in order that he might prove God's Word true and
might be the King to bruise the head of the Serpent and
destroy all the wicked opposers of God. By his
faithfulness to God to the cruel death upon the torture
stake Jesus proved his unbreakable integrity toward God
his Father and he displayed his worthiness to be the
promised King in whom all the nations should hope.
Jehovah God had made no mistake in choosing him and
sending him. Thus Jesus Christ laid down his perfect
human life that the merit, value or worth of it might be
made free for the good of all mankind, all those
appreciating it and willing to accept the benefit of it for
their salvation. Having released that perfect human life
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again to live again as a human. He would let that human

life remain as a sacrifice forever, in order that
condemned, dying mankind might get the benefit. He
said: "If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever:
and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will
give for the life of the world." (John 6: 51) Because he had
died in sinless innocence and was not deserving of
everlasting death or destruction as a wicked sinner, Jesus
was not left to remain in death. On the third day
Almighty God did for Jesus what Jesus had done for a
number of human creatures, namely, Almighty God
raised him from the dead. -1 Corinthians 15:3,4.
How, though, did God resurrect or raise Jesus out of.
death? Not as a human creature, not as a man, for that
would have meant that God had refused Jesus' sacrifice
and that Jesus was taking back his human sacrifice and
depriving all mankind of its value to buy eternal life for all
believers. No; but Jehovah God raised Jesus from the dead
a spirit person with heavenly life and glory, more
powerful and more glorious than before he had been born
as a man. For such reason Peter, an apostle of Jesus, writes
to say: "Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for
the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put
to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit." (1 Peter
3:18, Am. Stan. Ver.; Douay) After his resurrection he was
invisible as a spirit, but he proved he was alive from the
dead by materializing human bodies to reveal himself to
his disciples and to build up their faith and hope.
As such resurrected spirit person with all the needed

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power in heaven and in earth, Jesus Christ could ascend

to heaven and sit at his Father's right hand and, in due
time, become the King of the long-awaited kingdom of
God. Note this fact, then: The hope of all nations of all
mankind is therefore not in a dead king, such as King
David or King Hezekiah or King Josiah, who still sleep in
the dust of the earth. Rejoice, all you nations, because our
hope is in a living King, a heavenly King, who needs no
successors, but who now has immortality and therefore
lives for all time as a superhuman King at God's right
hand of power. Jehovah God has thus given us all "a
living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
dead". -1 Peter 1: 3, Am. Stan. Ver.
A CHOICE NOW FACES YOU
Accordingly, for nineteen centuries now, Jehovah God
has held in readiness one rightful, worthy King for all
mankind, fully able to take over earth's rulership at God's
appointed time. He is the resurrected, immortalized Jesus
Christ in heaven. Why, then, should we not put our hope
in God and in his provision for us? The true Christians,
not the imitation Christians, will do so; and the apostle
Peter says to these Christians that Jesus as King was
"foreordained before the foundation of the world, but
was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do
believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and
gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in
God". (1 Peter 1: 20, 21) God is certainly the only One
able to correct completely the conditions on earth that the
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beginning of the existence of man and woman. And God

promised to do this by the Seed of his "woman". What
right has devil or man to determine who shall rule and
dominate this earth forever? Who ruled this earth before
man got here, six thousand years ago? God! Who ruled it
after perfect man was created and instructed what to do
on earth? God! Who was it that flooded this earth clean
of the violent giants and doers of wickedness in the days
of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth? It was God! Jesus
Christ was His fellow worker in creating the earth, and
God has the right and power to appoint this One to be
his King over all the earth. And if we hope in God to do
this, our hope is right and is well-founded and will never
be disappointed.
Jesus Christ, the glorified Son of God, must therefore
reign as King over the earth in order to remove all
wickedness from it and to correct all the misrule and
misarrangement of things that Satan the Devil has caused
upon earth. Not one of the man-made kingdoms from
Nimrod's kingdom down to this day has ever done this, but
conditions on earth have grown only worse, and the
modern-day United Nations with its partial control of
atomic power will not be able to do it. It will make matters
only worse, despite the boast of politicians and religious
clergymen that the U. N. is this world's last hope and that it
will establish an enduring peace and usher in a better world
with morality, justice and human brotherhood. In the last
analysis of earth's destiny, it is now either the United
Nations or God's kingdom by his Christ. The two cannot
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purposes in defiance of each other. The U. N. does not

represent God's kingdom and can never be transformed
into God's kingdom, and yet it assumes to take the place of
God's kingdom over the earth. Unavoidably, either the U,
N. or whatever future form of world government the U. N.
evolves into must go on and God's kingdom must never
come and take control, or else the man-made form of world
domination must go out and God's rightful kingdom must
come in. A choice now faces us all individually. In which of
these two do you choose to put your hope? To put our hope
in God's kingdom and its King . Jesus Christ means to be
wise, because we have definitely reached the end of this
world and the man-made form of world domination must
go. It could never meet the long-standing needs of all
humankind. In the coming showdown fight over the issue
the man-made arrangement will perish.
Declaring positively that the King Jesus Christ will
reign over all the earth without a rival government in
existence, God's prophecy says: "In his days shall the
righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the
moon endureth. He shall have dominion also from sea to
sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. They
that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and
his enemies shall lick the dust." (Psalm 72:7-9) The
prophecy that announces the coming of this global ruler
to God's organized people says: "Behold, thy King
cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; . . .
and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak
peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from
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earth." (Zechariah 9:9,10) In fulfillment of these

prophecies Jesus Christ, and not the U. N., must reign
over all mankind. By his assuming the Kingdom power
at God's due time, Jesus Christ comes again as he
promised, and manifests his Kingdom power toward the
earth, although all the kingdoms of this world be to the
contrary. All his enemies must bite the dust; and the U.
N. will not escape this fate, for the King of the righteous
new world has come!
THE CAPITAL AND REPRESENTATIVES
All the earth is included in the domain of the new
world's King, but the capital from which he rules
mankind is not and will not be upon this earth. Let no
one be deceived into thinking that the U. N. capital in
New York or antiquated Jerusalem in Palestine will
become the capital city of the righteous new world. In
Jesus' days on earth he rode on an ass amid a joyous
multitude that cried out: "Hosanna; Blessed is he that
cometh in the name of the Lord: Blessed be the kingdom
of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord:
Hosanna in the highest." (Mark 11: 9,10) But when Jesus
thus rode into Jerusalem, its political and religious rulers
refused to receive him as King. Back there, Jerusalem was
subject to the bondage of "the Jews' religion" and of
Roman politics. That old Jerusalem was destroyed by
Roman armies in 70 (A.D.), and now the antique
Jerusalem that exists today as a bone of contention
between several major religions of this world is just as
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and does not want the glorified Jesus Christ as her King.
Showing that this earthly Jerusalem could never become
the new world's capital but that the true capital is located
in heaven, where Jesus Christ sits at God's right hand, the
apostle Paul writes: "Jerusalem which now is, ... is in
bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above
is free, which is the mother of us all." (Galatians 4: 25, 26)
The heavenly Jerusalem or Zion is therefore the divine
organization which Jehovah God has made the capital of
the new world and in which he has laid Jesus Christ as
the precious cornerstone and foundation of the new
world's kingdom. -Isaiah 28:16; 1 Peter 2:3-7.
Before King David made ancient Jerusalem his capital
city over the nation of Israel, Jehovah God was the
invisible King over his chosen people, and King David
continued to confess God as such. Jerusalem was then
the capital for only a small part of mankind, the nation
of Israel in the small land of Palestine. But Jehovah's
King of the new world will not be ruler over just King
David's nation and Palestine, but will rule all mankind
and all the earth. To fulfill the prophecy it was necessary
for Jesus to be born as a descendant of the Hebrew
Abraham and the Jewish King David, but the reign of
Jesus Christ in the new world is not to be considered as
the rule of a fleshly Jew nor the rule of a fleshly person
of any nationality or color. It is the rule of the heavenly
Son of God who laid down his perfect human life for all
mankind, Jew and non-Jew. Hence there is no room for
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or other religionists and nationalities.

Because of his heavenly exaltation and the wideness of
his domain he will rule from a spot higher than the low
hills of Jerusalem in Palestine, namely, from the heavenly
capital organization itself, of which ancient Jerusalem
was only a prophetic picture. It is to that loftier elevation,
not to the Jerusalem on earth, but to the new heavenly
Jerusalem, that mankind of all nations and people must
turn with faith and hope and must yield their
unswerving allegiance. (Zechariah 8:20-23) Now that
Jesus Christ has been put in power in the heavenly
capital to establish the new world and to rule, that old
Serpent, Satan the Devil, and his wicked demons have
been tumbled from heaven down to this earth, where
shortly the head of the Serpent will be bruised with
destruction under the heel of Jehovah's King, Jesus
Christ. Then, too, all the seed of that Serpent, both
demons and men, will lick the dust with him, at the
battle of Armageddon. -Rev. 12:1-13; 19:11 to 20:3.
It is quite manifest that Jesus did not accept his
kingdom from any people or nation on earth, and
certainly not from the Serpent, Satan the Devil, even
though this wicked one is "the god of this world".
(Matthew 4: 8-11; Luke 4:5-8) After he refused the rule of
the earth from the hands of the Devil, he did not try to
make himself an earthly human king by seizing power as
Nimrod did or by trying to overturn and usurp the
power of any kingdom of that day, the Roman empire or
any other political government. There is a favorite saying

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among democratic politicians: "The voice of the people is

the voice of God." But the man Christ Jesus was no
democrat and did not accept that worldly saying. He
withdrew from any popular, democratic election, even
by his own people the Jews. After his miracle of feeding a
multitude of five thousand men with five loaves and two
fishes, the Scriptures tell us, "when Jesus therefore
perceived that they would come and take him by force,
to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain
himself alone." (John 6:15) From God's holy Word Jesus
knew he must die and sacrifice his human life rather than
become an earthly king at Jerusalem. He needed no
popular or national election to make him King, because
God had anointed him with spiritual power to be the
king of a new world. Only God himself could confer that
kingdom upon him; and Jesus chose to wait upon God
and accept the Kingdom from no hands but God's. This
shows again that no person of any nationality should
have any prejudice against Christ's rule. It will not be a
rule by any national group over the rest of mankind.
Just as Jehovah God was the invisible King over the
nation of Israel before it called for its first human king, so
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will rule the earth with all
power in heaven and in earth during the new world.
Nonetheless, he will have visible representatives on earth
in personal touch with the people. Who will these be?
Not one of them will be any man or woman appointed by
the political powers and governments of this world, for
this world is Satan's and is opposed to Christ's rule and
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The politicians and commercial lords and religious rulers

have chosen to be a part of this evil world, and they will
perish with it. In the new world Jesus Christ the King
will do the appointing of his visible representatives on
earth. He will appoint only those who are his sons.
How is this? It is because as a man he died that he
might give life to those who render their allegiance to
him as King. Because he gives the benefits of his
sacrificed life to them, he becomes their "everlasting
Father" and they become his children. (Isaiah 9:6,7) These
will include his faithful forefathers, whom he will raise
from the dead to life on earth, and concerning them we
read: "Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom
thou mayest make princes in all the earth." (Psalm 45:16)
They will include the former King David, Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Noah and Enoch, besides many other
faithful men who proved their integrity to God and who
were not Jesus' forefathers. Suggesting that these will all
be earthly representatives of the heavenly kingdom of
God, Jesus said to the unbelieving religionists of his day:
"Ye. shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the
prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves
thrust out." (Luke 13:28) It is therefore seen that such
visible princes will not all be men who were once Jews
according to the flesh. All the faithful from Jacob on back
to the first martyr Abel were not Jews; and Noah was the
faithful man from whom the present three branches of
the human family descended, Japhetic, Hamitic and
Semitic. In this light it is seen there will be no grounds
for prejudice against the princely representatives on

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national grounds as having all one nationality

previously. In fact, all former nations will be represented
according to the flesh.
The thing to require of these princes is not a certain
former nationality, but their faithful representation of
God's kingdom with justice and impartial lovingkindness toward all. Their faithful course toward God in
the past, and Christ the King's choice of them as his sons,
guarantee that they will be faithful visible princes among
all mankind. The King in heaven would never permit
them to be other than that, for the prophecy says of his
reign: "He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall
save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces
the oppressor." (Psalm 72:4) It is to bring about our
deliverance from all oppressors that he causes the
destruction of this Satan-ruled world at Armageddon.
In the comforting enlightenment from the Bible it is
plain that the destruction of this oppressive world in the
universal war of Armageddon does not mean destruction
to our earth by atomic chain-reactions or other fiery
means. Nevertheless, the Armageddon of destruction
will consume Satan's oppressive organization as if by fire
and will purge this earth as thoroughly as the flood of
Noah's day did. The physical earth is part of the King's
universal domain, and he will not break Jehovah's Word
that says: "The earth abideth for ever." "He formed it to
be inhabited." (Ecclesiastes 1:4; Isaiah 45:18) For this
blessed reason the apostle Peter says that, following the
old world's destruction, "we, according to his promise,

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look for NEW heavens and a NEW earth, wherein

dwelleth righteousness." (2 Peter 3:13) And with the
kingdom of Jehovah's king overhead in control and with
the faithful princes in office on earth as visible
representatives of the heavenly kingdom, the new-world
arrangement will indeed be new heavens and a new
earth. Political laws of one nation against another, or of
one class of people against another, will find no place
therein. The law then to be in effect will be God's law,
and it will come down from heaven through God's King
and will be faithfully and impartially applied and
observed by the earthly princes. Speaking of the
heavenly Jerusalem or Zion, the prophecy says: "Out of
Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah
from Jerusalem." (Isaiah 2:3, Am. Stan. Ver.) The faithful
application of that law will secure justice to all and will
teach all mankind true righteousness.
The heavenly King will have no cause for shame
because of the earthly conditions under which his subjects
will live. He will make their living conditions perfect, so
that they will want to live forever upon earth. Nineteen
centuries ago when he hung upon the torture stake at
Calvary the charge against Jesus as posted over his head
was: "The King of the Jews This!" And one of the criminals
impaled alongside him said: "Jesus! remember me,
whensoever thou shalt come into thy kingdom." What was
Jesus' answer? The record tells us: "And he said unto him Verily I say unto thee this day: With me shalt thou be in
Paradise." (Luke 23: 38-43, Rotherham's translation; also
Lamsa) Jesus' answer assured that dying malefactor that

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when God's kingdom should be established with Jesus

Christ as King, it would transform this earth into a global
paradise. If our Savior had not died that day on the torture
stake, the just for the unjust, that dying malefactor would
have had no basis for a future life in paradise. But because
Jesus died sacrificially for all men and because God
resurrected him from the dead, Jesus could enter into his
heavenly kingdom and he could in due time resurrect the
dead, including that sympathetic malefactor. The
Scriptures say: "Have hope toward God, . . . that there shall
be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." Acts 24:15. Jesus Christ the King resurrects his faithful
footstep followers to life in heaven with him, because they
lay down their lives in sacrifice, copying his example. They
will reign with him over all those of mankind who remain
upon the earth. (1 Peter 1: 3, 4; Revelation 2:10; 3: 21)
Resurrection will put all of Jesus' joint-heirs with him in
the heavenly kingdom, but it will put his subjects right
back here on earth. Many persons of good-will of this
present living generation will not need to be resurrected
from the graves because they will be preserved through
the swiftly nearing battle of Armageddon. They will
survive on earth into the new world, just as Noah and his
household survived the end of the old, antediluvian world
in the flood. For all those of mankind who put their hope
in Jesus as King and loyally accept him as God's appointed
Ruler, he will make all the earth an Edenic paradise. Why?
That his faithful human subjects may live in it for all
eternity in happiness, to God's praise. Everlasting life in it
will be possible for them because their King made an

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eternal sacrifice of his perfect human life for them.

What marvels we may hope for that King to do for his
subjects! We all remember that, while on earth, he
performed miracles for the sick, imperfect, demonized,
deaf, dumb and blind, crippled, dying and dead people. So,
what wonderful miracles may we expect him to do now
that he has come into his kingdom, to make his subjects
perfectly happy, free from God's condemnation due to sin
inherited from Adam! He will rid the earth of misery,
sickness, old age, death and demons. By his gift of eternal
life to obedient mankind he will make them his sons and
daughters and will bless them with everlasting youth in
human perfection. And peace will reign from pole to pole
between man and man and between man and beast.
No political government or ruler, no worldly religion,
can offer you such a hope as this. It is impossible for them.
But what is impossible with men is possible with the
Almighty God, Jehovah. Upon the solid, unchangeable
foundation of His Word this hope is based. It, and it alone,
is the Kingdom hope of all mankind, and its glorious
realization is near at hand. In an outstanding way this is
the day of the fulfillment of the prophecy concerning
Jehovah's King Jesus Christ: "And in his name shall the
nations hope." Persons of good-will everywhere are now
putting their trust in the kingdom of Jehovah God by
Christ Jesus, and are being blessed. By faithfully directing
their lives henceforth according this only hope at this
crucial end of the world, they will be "saved by hope".